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These photographs are not about the t-shirt per se. The messages
are combinations of pictures and words that reveal much about the
identity of the wearer. They tell who these people are and who they
aren't, who they want to be and what they want us to know about
them. They advertise their hopes, ideals, political views, and
personal mantras.
Begun in 2009, "TEE" has taken Susan Barnett to cities and
tourist spots throughout the United States and Europe to record the
ever-changing messages.
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Capital
(Paperback)
Mark Hage
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Sylvie Huet rediscovered her own childhood teddy at the age of 49
in a Paris fleamarket. Until then he had lived only as a memory and
in family photographs. Her discovery began a trail of exploration,
revealing childhood memories and family secrets. The bears that
feature are aged between 44 and 103 years old - worn, stitched, and
scarred, yet seemingly indestructible. Mostly they are anonymous,
but several have celebrity status. Amongst those included are Nana,
Jean Paul Gaultier's bear with the cone bra; Grayson Perry's
'personal god' Alan Measles; Tomi Ungerer's bear, who inspired his
famous children's book Otto; and Jubilee, a stuffed chimpanzee and
the childhood companion of Dame Jane Goodall, now considered the
world's foremost expert on chimpanzees. Sylvie Huet's portraits
give the bears a dignity that befits their status in the eyes of
their owners. Included are archive photographs, stories from the
past, accounts of meetings and literary extracts.
Francesco Radino (Bagno a Ripoli, Florence, 1947) is one of the
masters of contemporary Italian photography. Participating in the
developments of research photography on the contemporary landscape,
over the course of fifty years he developed an intimate way of
exploring reality in its profound economic, historical, social and
cultural transformations. The volume contains the most significant
works of his rich production, accompanied by numerous critical
interventions and writings by Radino himself. Contributions by:
Roberta Valtorta, Giovanni Arpino, Giovanna Calvenzi, Paolo
Cognetti, Eleonora Fiorani, Antonella Pelizzari, Urs Stahel,
Fabrizio Trisoglio, Mauro Zanchi, Francesco Radino. Text in English
and Italian.
The fascination we have as humans with our ability to do evil,
witness the evidence of horror and stare fixedly at photographic,
filmic or artefacts connected with death, is at the heart of the
phenomenon known as 'Dark Tourism'. These images are about much
more than tourism and the visiting of such sites, they challenge
the nature of our behaviour, our history and our societies'
relationship with evil and mortality. They are a testament to our
past, to our inability to move beyond it and our curious
relationship with tragedy and death." - from the introduction by
J.J. Lennon Ambroise Tezenas has visited over a dozen major sites
of dark tourism across the world - from Cambodia to Rwanda, Lebanon
to Lithuania, Ukraine to the United States. These are sites
developed for tourism and linked to death, assassination,
incarceration, mass killing and tragedy. Yet dark tourism is not a
new phenomenon and similar sites have attracted human interest for
many years. From the gladiatorial combats of ancient Rome through
to attendance at public executions in London of the 1600s, it seems
that death and disaster have maintained a lasting appeal.
As a small boy, John Comino-James stood in school cap and Sunday
suit to have his snapshot taken under flags put up for Queen
Elizabeth's Coronation. The resultant photograph resonates with an
England long since disappeared, yet still fertile in the
imagination. That sense of how that England has changed is the
focus in John Comino-James' new book as he explores our everyday
landscape of sign and symbol, from roadside verge to traffic-free
shopping centre, to high-rise cityscapes. Art is in action ahead,
and with a friendly corporate Hello, we are offered No Deposit
Deals on Half Price Dreams. We are thanked for shopping, and
offered free cash withdrawals. A Money Shop is at hand and
woodlands are for sale - just visit the website. If we drop litter
CCTV may catch us, and we are warned that if we leave something
valuable on show in our car we can expect it to be stolen.
Reminders of the valour and necessity, the sacrifices, the folly
and the tragedy of war are never far away. Earthquakes may strike,
stores may close but we can still buy artisan ice-cream. But if
opportunity is the moment you have been looking for, where is
salvation to be found if not in moments of direct relationship with
others?
'Mother and Father', is a moving journal of the final years of a
sixty-year marriage. For ten years, from 1997 to 2007 Paddy
Summerfield photographed his parents, reflecting on the bond
between them, which even the effects of Alzheimers could not break.
They become symbols in a drama of balance and tension, which is
both domestic and epic. As he says: "I recorded my mother's loss of
the world, my father's loss of his wife and, eventually, my loss of
them both." The images are primarily taken in their garden, though
the central section shows holiday visits to the Welsh coast, where
the raven, a Celtic symbol of death, frequently appears alongside
their world. Finally, the once cultivated garden becomes a
neglected wilderness, in the absence of the two people who spent
long days there, who cared for it, and for each other. These
thoughtful, often melancholy, images form a personal piece which is
simultaneously universal.
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Unravelled
(Hardcover)
Kajsa Gullberg
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Gullberg combines images of women bearing scars on their bodies
with those of the natural world - hinting at both a sense of
inevitability and our unrealistic dreams of perfection. These women
expose themselves, putting on display what our culture seeks to
forget - the imperfect, the ugly and the embarrassing. And yet we
need to be loved as we are. Unravelled is made in the hope that the
viewer will come to love themselves a little bit more. The
expressive qualities of Gullberg's work are both intimate and edgy.
Her viewers are given a raw, yet poetic, look at life. She looks
for beauty, strength and pride where you would not always expect to
find it. Gullberg says "I deliberately put myself in situations
that make me vulnerable. It makes me remember what it's like to
have pictures taken of yourself. That again helps me uncover the
traces that bind us together."
Volumes have been written by and about Patrick Leigh Fermor, but
his wife Joan is almost entirely absent from their pages. Now Simon
Fenwick, the first archivist to see the Leigh Fermor papers,
reveals a woman hitherto only fleetingly glimpsed. A talented
photographer, Joan defied the social conventions of her times and,
though she came from a wealthy and well-connected family, earned
her own living. Through her lover, and later editor of the TLS,
Alan Pryce-Jones, she met and mingled with the leading lights of
1930s bohemia - John Betjeman, Cyril Connolly, Evelyn Waugh,
Maurice Bowra (who adored her) and Osbert Lancaster, among others.
She featured regularly in the gossip columns, not only for her
affairs and her fashionable clothes, but for her intrepid travels
to Russia and America. In 1936 she met and subsequently married the
journalist John Rayner, but her belief in open marriage was not
shared by her husband and their relationship foundered. Then, in
1944 in Cairo, where she was a cypher clerk, she met Paddy Leigh
Fermor, lionized for his daring kidnap of the Nazi General Kreipe
in Crete. They would remain together until her death in 2003. In
this riveting biography, written with full access to Joan's
personal archive, Simon Fenwick reveals the extraordinary life of a
woman who, until now, has been defined by the man she married and
their famous friends. Here, at last, Joan is placed at the centre
of her own story. It is also a riveting portrait of a marriage and
a milieu, revealing the sexual and intellectual mores of that
wartime generation who lived life at full tilt, no matter what the
consequences.
In 1948, photographer Tom Kelley took a photograph of an
out-of-work actress, a nude posed against a scarlet background.
That actress was Marilyn Monroe, and a few years later, the photo
became Playboy's first ever centrefold. This volume offers a
complete look at Kelley's visionary colour nude photography of the
1940s-1970s.
This striking book shows the world's most beautiful libraries
through Candida Hoefer's mesmerizing photographs. No one
photographs spaces quite like Candida Hoefer and no one has
captured better the majesty, stillness, and eloquence of libraries.
Traveling around the world, Hoefer shows the exquisite beauty to be
found in order, repetition, and form--rows of books, lines of
desks, soaring shelves, and even stacks of paper create patterns
that are both hypnotic and soothing. Photographed with a
large-format camera and a small aperture, these razor-sharp images
of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the Escorial in Spain,
Villa Medici in Rome, the Hamburg University library, the
Bibliotheque Nationale de France in Paris, and the Museo
Archeologico in Madrid, to name a few, communicate more than just
the superb architecture. Glowing with subtle color and natural
light, Hoefer's photographs, while devoid of people, shimmer with
life and remind us again and again that libraries are more than
just repositories for books. Umberto Eco's essay about his own
attachment to libraries is the perfect introduction to an otherwise
wordless, but sublimely reverent journey.
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I AM
- Celebrating the Perfect Imperfect
(Hardcover)
Angelika Buettner; Designed by Dagny Emiliani; Edited by Patty Labozzo; Photographs by Angelika Buettner; Interview by Karen Williams
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Since the early 1970s, when he hit the streets of Los Angeles with
a 35mm camera and the basic technical knowledge he had acquired in
darkroom classes at East Los Angeles College, photographer Anthony
Hernandez has consistently challenged himself by adopting new
formats and subject matter. Moving from black-and-white to colour,
from 35mm to large-format cameras and from the human figure to
landscapes to abstracted detail, Hernandez has produced a varied
body of work united by its arresting formal beauty and subtle
engagement with social issues. At first largely unaware of the
formal traditions of the medium, Hernandez developed a style of
street photography uniquely attuned to the desolate beauty and
sprawling expanses of L.A. Published to accompany the
photographer's first retrospective, Anthony Hernandez offers a
comprehensive introduction to Hernandez's career of more than forty
years, including many photographs that have never before been
exhibited or published. The catalogue fully represents the range
and breadth of Hernandez's work, with an extensive plate section
sequenced in collaboration with the photographer.
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Dear Ana
(Hardcover)
Leticia Valverdes; Text written by Angela Ferreira, Octavia Bright; Designed by Billie Temple
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A lyrical manifestation of Leticia Valverdes' award-winning project
that took her on a journey back to Portugal, her grandmother's
motherland. This extraordinary project resulted in a magical
collaboration with the inhabitants of Ana's birthplace, the village
of Mundao. By inviting the villagers to write a postcard to her now
dead grandmother, they became the fictional friends she believed
she had whilst dying with Alzheimer's disease in Brazil. Through
photography interspersed with poetic text, cyanotypes and votive
offerings, this is a personal yet universal story exploring
transgenerational trauma, longing, migration, and what it means to
feel divided between two cultures. A hundred years on, this is the
perfect time to tell this story, as Europe is engulfed in debates
about borders, nationalism and migration.
Ireland is a collection of 300 contemporary images of the
beauties of Ireland, covering every one of the 32 counties. The
photographs are taken by two of the country's leading landscape
photographers, Peter Zoller and Michael Diggin.
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